Create a new Cursor plugin scaffold with a valid manifest, component directories, and marketplace wiring. Use when starting a new plugin or adding a plugin to a multi-plugin repository.
You need to create a new Cursor plugin from scratch and make it ready for local use or marketplace submission.
rules, skills, agents, commands, hooks, mcpServers)single-plugin or multi-plugin marketplace)By default, create the plugin inside the user's local plugin directory:
~/.cursor/plugins/local/<plugin-name>/
This path makes the plugin immediately available to Cursor without any install step. If the user explicitly asks to create the plugin elsewhere (e.g. inside an existing repo or a specific directory), respect that choice instead.
~/.cursor/plugins/local/<plugin-name>/.cursor-plugin/plugin.jsonREADME.mdLICENSECHANGELOG.mdplugin.json:
nameversion, description, author, license, keywords.mdc with description, alwaysApply, optional globsskills/<skill-name>/SKILL.md with name, descriptionagents/*.md with name, descriptioncommands/*.(md|txt) with name, description.cursor-plugin/marketplace.json, add plugin entry:
namesourcedescription, keywords, category, tags)~/.cursor/plugins/local/<plugin-name>/ unless the user provides a different path.plugin.json~/.cursor/plugins/local/ and ready for use